Category: NHS
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Legal Challenge to Puberty Blocker Trial fails
The attempt to stop the Pathways puberty blocker trial at the High Court has failed. After a two day permissions hearing earlier this week, Mr Justice Chamberlain refused to allow the application to go to full review on the basis that “none of the grounds of challenge has a realistic prospect of success”. The Bayswater…
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Decision on Puberty Blocker Judicial Review tomorrow
A decision on whether a judicial review into the government’s Pathways puberty blocker trial can go ahead will be handed down at the High Court in London tomorrow at 2pm. The judicial review applicants are seeking permission to have the trial stopped, claiming the decisions which led to its approval were made unlawfully and the…
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NHS Fife ordered to publish trans guidance
Fighting Fife With FOI The Information Commissioner in Scotland, David Hamilton, has told NHS Fife to make its 2024 Trans Policy available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act. NHS Fife has thus far refused to release the document, citing a number of exemptions, all of which have been rejected by the Commissioner.…
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NHS attack doctor asked by GMC to “reflect”
An NHS doctor has been asked to “reflect” on the consequences of her decision to tear a cameraphone out of a videographer’s hand during a protest in Cardiff in April. On Saturday 11 April several women’s groups banded together under the brand “One Year Later” to mark the anniversary of the For Women Scotland Supreme…
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Gender Surgery’s Incontinence Problem
“This data is shocking, but they’re carrying on. Chelsea and Westminster are training up new surgeons.” One of the bigger scandals surrounding gender treatment concerns the long term effects of both hormone use and surgery. A particular aspect of it was brought home this week at a Rethinking Youth Gender Medicine conference* by Elaine Miller…
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NHS: Gender Doctors Harmed Children
An NHS investigation into the activities of WellBN – a Brighton GP surgery which prescribed cross-sex hormones to children – has found it caused “actual potential harm” to its young patients and “fell substantially below” the professional standards of care required. A Patient Safety Investigation Report, completed on 8 May, but published on the NHS…
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WGS issues raised in Welsh Parliament
Concerns published on this website about the Welsh Gender Service have been raised in the Welsh Parliament by Natasha Asghar MS. During a plenary session in which the Health and Social Care Minister outlined his priorities for the parliamentary session, Asghar said: “Recently, there have been some rather concerning revelations about the Welsh Gender Service,…
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Welsh Gender Service: Going Rogue?
The Welsh Gender Service is an interesting outfit. It is the only NHS clinic in Wales taking adult referrals from GPs. It is run by Dr Sophie Quinney, who was last seen in April, grabbing a camera out of a videographer’s hand, and allegedly having to be restrained by the police. According to information released…
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NHS Doctor Attacks Videographer
On Saturday 11 April various women’s groups around the country got together for a series of events under the One Year On banner, marking the first anniversary of the For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling. The 2025 ruling essentially established that in law, the word “woman” definitely means biological female. The One Year On event…
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Tavistock whistleblowers call for immediate halt to puberty blocker trial
Susan and Marcus Evans – two of the first whistleblowers involved in exposing the scandal at the Tavistock’s GenderIdentity Development Service (GIDS) – have written to the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, asking him to “immediately halt” the proposed UK puberty blocker trial. The whistleblowers believe “the proposed research risks causing iatrogenic harm to children who…